It seems that lately I have been seeing more and more work that had been originaly shot in color and then converted to black and white.

I'd just like to toss this little fact out there, for all of you digital shooters, to have in your bag of tricks.

Most digital cameras now have two modes...color and greyscale. Why would they give you a greyscale option when you can just convert it later?

Having the option to shoot color and make it greyscale later is nice, but there is a definate advantage to that seldom used greyscale option on your cameras.

Sharper images and more detail!

Here's why....when you shoot in color the CCD in your camera is seperated into RGB pixels like a checker board, and so it has to interpolate up to 24 bit color to simulate continuous color tones.

When shooting in greyscale your camera can ignore those color filters and simply capture each pixel as a true pixel. Just like good old black and white film.

So depending on your camera and intended use, you might not see any difference, so give yourself the option and shoot color and convert. But If you intend to make high quality prints in black and white from the get go, you will see a difference.

I'm using a Nikon coolpix 5700, and I have noticed a HUGE difference.

Just thought I'd share some info.